Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) are an American political grouping of democratic socialism . They emerged in 1991 from parts of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) which could no longer identify with the neo-Stalinist politics of the then CPUSA party chairman Gus Hall under the name Committees of Correspondence . The most famous founding members were the civil rights activist Angela Davis and the musician Pete Seeger .
Origin of name
The group borrows its name from the Committee of Correspondence , which formed in the American colonies in the 1770s during the American Revolution and beyond and organized the resistance against British oppression. They only changed their original name Committees of Correspondence in 2000 and added the addition "for Democracy and Socialism" (in German: for democracy and socialism ).
Political orientation
Simultaneous membership in the US Socialist Party is accepted. The CCDS see themselves as an association of people " (...) who feel the brunt of oppression in the US " ( German : (...) who feel the main burden of oppression in the United States). The aim of the CCDS is to become a " catalyst " for change. They try to bring about this change through their composition of activists from different movements.
Publications
The CCDS publish the discussion journal Dialogue & Initiative and the newsletter CCDS Mobilizer . They have also published the book Committees of Correspondence corresponder in their own publishing house .
literature
- Robert Chandler: Shadow world , Washington, DC: Regnery Pub., C2008. ISBN 9781596985612
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Self-presentation of the CCDS ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
